UK-based arts publisher The List and South Australian reviewing site InReview have announced a new partnership to expand coverage of Adelaide’s festival season. Together, they’ll create a unique platform for championing artists through fair and unbiased reviews, published on the news website InDaily every day.

For the first time, The List’s Adelaide festival reviews will be hosted on the InReview strand of InDaily’s site, pooling resources and giving both publications the chance to cover significantly more shows during Mad March. Both publishers will seek to help Festival-going audiences make more informed decisions, creating a vital eco system for independent publishers at a time when the future of arts journalism requires decisive and disruptive action.  

After being a fixture of Scottish culture since 1985, The List has spent the past three years building its presence in Adelaide. Its Adelaide Summer Festivals Guide and Adelaide Winter Festivals Guides have provided extensive, entertaining coverage of highlights from arts, culture, food and drink, becoming an invaluable guide to Adelaide’s year-round Festival programme. Beyond print and media, The List Festival Party has cemented itself as the ultimate way to kick off the Adelaide Fringe, offering an evening of drinks and entertainment that champions the diverse array of entertainment that makes Fringe season special.

InDaily, owned by innovative publisher Solstice Media, has remained a champion of high-quality local arts journalism in South Australia. Its InReview strand has published hundreds of pieces of original critique and journalism enjoyed by more than 60,000 readers each month. 

Jo Laidlaw, editor of The List Adelaide Festival Guide, said: ‘This ground-breaking partnership means The List and InReview can support more shows by reaching more people with more reviews over the festival season. We’re thrilled to be working with the phenomenal team at InReview who do so much to keep South Australia’s wonderful culture alive year-round.’  

Walter Marsh, editor of InReview, said: ‘From Adelaide to Edinburgh, festival season is all about connecting artists with audiences, and this new partnership between InReview and the seasoned festival-heads at The List will help our independent reviews and arts journalism reach even more readers and arts lovers. You can find us online, in your inbox, and in the crowd from opening night to the final curtain.’

The List

The List is a multi-award-winning free arts, culture and events magazine that has been helping Glasgow and Edinburgh residents ‘get a life’ since 1985 and it offers the UK’s largest events website. After nearly closing its doors in 2020 due to the pandemic, the magazine fully relaunched in March 2022 under the newly formed List Publishing Ltd, thanks to new investment and a successful crowdfunding campaign. The List won Best Relaunch at the 2023 PPA Awards and then went on to add international publishing to its list of accolades with the introduction of the award-winning Adelaide Summer Festivals Guide and The List Adelaide Winter Festivals Guide. It continues to grow its events arm with ListLive and the award-nominated List Festival Party and Hot 100 events.

InReview

InReview is a unique non-profit arts journalism project designed to nurture professional arts reviewing in Australia, particularly for areas in which the practice is under threat. The project originated in South Australia and has expanded to Queensland, with a focus on local arts and culture reviewing and journalism. InReview grew out of a concern about the ongoing decline of local journalism, with specialist areas like arts reviewing under particular pressure. We believe that professional and rigorous reviewing is a crucial part of cultural practice, helping artists and arts companies to be the best they can be. InReview publishes free-to-access reviews and journalism every week for the benefit of the arts sector, audiences and the community, covering the full breadth of arts and culture practices.